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Man found hiding in bus outside of home

Posted: Monday, October 24, 2005

A Booker Street man called police around 6 a.m. Saturday to report that someone was moving around in his bus, which was parked outside of his home, according to an incident report by Athens-Clarke police.

When police arrived, they found Claude Q. Freeman, 28, of Colbert hiding inside the bus, according to the report. Freeman was an ex-employee of the bus' owner, but did not have the owner's permission to be on the bus, police said. A window in the rear of the bus also was broken, police said.

When officers tried to get Freeman off the bus, he wedged himself under one of the beds, police said.

The space was about 8 inches high and 2 feet wide, which made it hard for officers to pull Freeman from the bus, the report noted. Once he was finally off the bus, Freeman was arrested and charged with entering auto.